Excerpt: Funhouse (working title)

“What are you doing?” the lioness shouted from her left, suddenly in the fight, and its sharp talons of claws sliced at one of the newcomers’ heads. It appeared unconcerned as the appendage rolled to the side of the street, and leapt instead for another – from the writer’s point of view, glorious and a little scary in its ferocity.
And suddenly her arm was moving, and something’s teeth were sinking themselves into her neck, but she was spinning by this time, and a rapier she hadn’t noticed herself carrying was buried in the chest of one of the attackers. After the initial shock, she started looking more closely as she (but not she, because she really wasn’t driving) drove the blade again and again into these strange lumbering quasi-humans who were attacking her, but as quickly as she dispatched them, more took their place.
“He’s got thousands!” there was a gasp from the general direction of the cat, her earlier companion, and when she turned (at least an action she’d been thinking of, so she could pretend she’d moved herself) there were hundreds more beings of rotting flesh headed towards her. A strange light shone at the end of the alleyway, revealing the troops, but not much else, and she felt a feeling of dread settle in the pit of her stomach – unfamiliar again, so she didn’t know if it was hers, but it didn’t really matter now, anyways.
“Get to him!” the lioness was shouting, but she was concentrating to hard on felling the creatures around her trying to bite and rip at her to take in much of what was said. Obviously her companion realized this, as it was repeated moments later. And then something stranger happened. Her body threw down the rapier, and she screamed; high, piercing, bloodcurdling even – a note so high pitched she’d never contemplated reaching it, but the extraordinary thing was that all of the beings that had been mindlessly attacking them before fell to the ground, writhing in agony.
A smile overtook her face, for some reason, but there was nothing she could do but watch and listen while her body left the ground, hovered for a moment or so, and then flew careening to the strange light in the distance, the strange grey cat following behind her…